Fever

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Diary of Robert Laws, later missionary in Livingstonia, from his time as an agent of the Glasgow City Mission at fever and smallpox hospitals in the Glasgow area. Contains statistical information about patients at the beginning of the diary.

A note, presummably written by Laws, is pasted onto the verso of the front cover giving a bit of context for the diary. A newsclipping from The Scotsman, 15 October 1993, about the diary is laid in the front of the volume.

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Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 25 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: appendicitis; abdominal pain; vomiting; and pyrexia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, notes, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outisde Edinburgh and the Lothians), aged 15 at first examination in 1926. Conditions mentioned include: vertebral sarcoma; paraplegia; kyphosis; pyrexia; and anorexia. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Case summary, charts, and correspondence relating to female student from north Edinburgh and Leith aged 18 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: miliary tuberculosis, pyrexia. No family history of tuberculosis. Nonsurgical...

Scope and Contents Case summary, forms, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from south Edinburgh aged 1 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: miliary tuberculosis, cyanosis, pyrexia. No family history of tuberculosis. Nonsurgical treatment given, including chemotherapy. Patient died in...

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Case summary and forms relating to female patient from south Edinburgh aged 6 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: abdominal pain, feverish at times. No family history of tuberculosis. No treatment given.

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Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male lieutenant fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 42 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; skull fracture; disorientation; retrograde amnesia; paraphasia; hyperpyrexia; dizzy turns; post traumatic psychosis; alcoholism; and arthritis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female short-hand typist from south Edinburgh aged 21 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: catarrhal bronchitis; cough with sputum; and...

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Correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 8 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: high temperature; limp; swelling; and flat foot. No treatment given. Patient discharged.